الحبُّ في لذّة الامتلاك، أما حبّ الله فلا لذّة فيه للامتلاك، لأنّ مقامات الحقيقة هي الدهشة، وإسقاط الدَّين المستحَقّ، وانبهار البصر. وحبُّ الإنسان لله هيبةٌ تنفذ إلى أعماق كيانه، ولا يجوز أن تُمنح إلا لله وحده. وحبُّ الله للإنسان أن يُظهر هو ذاته بذاته، فلا يتجلّى لشيءٍ ليس هو.

“Love is in the pleasure of possession, but in the Love of Allah there is no pleasure of possession, because the stations of the Reality are wonderment, the cancelling of the debt which is owed, and the blinding of vision. The Love of the human being for God is a reverence which penetrates the very depths of his being, and which is not permitted to be given except to Allah alone. The Love of Allah for the human being is that He Himself gives proof of Himself, not revealing Himself to anything that is not He.”Mansur Al-Hallaj